Humans on the Earth Historical Geography as Epistemology and Worldview
March 24-25, 2017 Remarque Institute Seminar Room Room 824, 60 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011

Friday, March 24, 2017
9:00-10:30 Introduction by the Organizer
Session 1
Nick Baron (University of Nottingham) The Mapping of Illiberal Modernity: Spatial Science, Ideology and the State in Early Twentieth Century Russia.
Holly Case (Brown University) The Geography of Questions, 1820-1920.

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 2 (Chair: Stephen Gross, NYU)
Danilo Scholz (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) François Châtelet and the Spatial Turn in French Thought.
Malgorzata Mazurek (Columbia University) Scaling Capitalism: Ludwik Landau’s World Economy (1939) and Spatial Thinking in pre-World War Two Central and Eastern Europe.

12:30-13:30 Lunch at Institute 13:30-15:00

Session 3 (Chair: Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins)
Allison Powers (Columbia University) The Standard of Civilization on Trial at the United States-Mexico Claims Commission.
Philippa Hetherington (University College London) Cartographies of Commercial Sex in Fin-de-Siecle Russia.

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session 4 (Chair: Ian W. Merkel, NYU)
Solange Rigaud (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) Gardening and Neighbouring at the Dawn of Agriculture in Europe, 8000 years ago.
Alexander C. T. Geppert (New York University) Stairways to Heaven: Extraterrestrial Habitats and the Humanization of Outer Space, 1929-1979.

18:00 Dinner for Panelists at Jack’s Wife Freda (50 Carmine St.)

Saturday, March 25 10:00-12:15
Session 1 (Chair: Manu Goswami, NYU)
Samantha Iyer (Fordham University) Welfare and the Ecology of Hunger in the post-World War II United States.
Aleksandra Simonova (University of California, Berkeley) Cities and Science: Political and Spatial Imaginary of Science Development in Russia.
Stefanos Geroulanos (New York University) Human Geography in the History of Human Experimentation, 1890-1940. 12:30

Lunch for Panelists at French Roast (78 West 11th St. at 6th Ave.)